Alright! Just a quick update on our RV situation: The RV centre finally got in touch on Friday and said our little Brave was ready for pickup – Monday afternoon! Hooray! And then we put the phone down and looked at each other and realised Monday was also the arrival of Hurricane Irma in Georgia. […]

Heading into winter, my favourite season of the year, there are two sides to it and I embrace both equally passionately: The Cold and Dark, and the Warm and Comfy.  I am just as happy to be out in the cold air, in a dark forest, silence thick as the snow, looking for tracks and […]

I’ve discovered a sure fire way to make my dogs happy and relaxed and utterly ZONKED for hours: give them a marrow bone, after a LONG morning walk in the rain and wind and cold! I waited nearly 5 days after giving them their first marrow bone in years, just to be sure it didn’t […]

HO-LEE-CRAP it’s windy out there! I felt like I was back home in Cape Town, doing a working ride with Mandy on the horses! Just _walking_ along relatively flat ground (just a few hills) was exhausting! Even Azzie was tired! Both dogs just plopped down immediately when we got home. I made their food and […]

I was cautiously optimistic this morning, after our early morning toilet break – Gina’s poop was… better… showed improvement. But then Azzie went and it started out good, and ended up terrible. So both got their sucralfate tablets (thankfully G ate hers without too much nose turning) with breakfast. *sigh* No idea why Azzie’s tummy […]

Woke up this morning and had REM’s song “It’s the end of the world as we know it” running through my mind 🙂 21st December 2012. (21.12.2012 in normal usage… 12.21.2012 for the Americans) I’m hoping the “end of the world” just means an end to the bad and a start of a new age […]